Albanian People by Religion - Albanian Muslims, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ramush Haradinaj, Ali Pasha, Sali Berisha, Essad Pasha, Bashkim Gazidede (Paperback)

Chapters: Albanian Muslims, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ramush Haradinaj, Ali Pasha, Sali Berisha, Essad Pasha, Bashkim Gazidede, Nexhat Daci, Adrian Gaxha, Nazmi Mehmeti, Hasan Zyko Kamberi, Bajram Rexhepi, Ali-Pa a abanagi . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha (Arabic: ) (Mehmet Ali Pasha in Albanian; Muhammed Ali Paa in Bosnian; Kavalal Mehmet Ali Paa in Turkish) (4 March 1769 2 August 1849) was an Albanian who became Wli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Though not a modern nationalist, he is regarded as the founder of modern Egypt because of the dramatic reforms in the military, economic, and cultural spheres that he instituted. The dynasty that he established would rule Egypt and Sudan until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. The spelling of Muhammad Ali's first name in both Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish was consistent: (Muhammad). This is the name by which he was known to his Egyptian subjects, and the name used uniformly in Egyptian, and Arab historical scholarship. However, given his original status as a commander in the Ottoman military, his first name is often rendered as Mehmed, or Mehmet, as this was the way in which his name was pronounced by the Turkish-speaking leadership. Current English-language historical scholarship is divided as to which is preferable, with the majority opinion favoring the former. Typically, historians accentuating the Egyptian character of his rule opt for 'Muhammad', whilst those accentuating the Ottoman character opt for 'Mehmed', or 'Mehmet'. This distinction is not an issue for writings in Arabic, but only for those writing in a Latin alphabet. Muhammad Ali was born in Kavala, in the Ottoman province of Macedonia (now a part of modern Greece) to Albanian parents....More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=332464